Originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine, November, 2013 and is the title story of the collection “Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories” published in 2014.
This is a work of fiction, though based on (limited, selected) historical research. See Robert Frost: A Biography, by Jeffrey Meyers (1996).
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